The Hidden Costs of AI Calendar Negotiators
AI calendar tools promise to eliminate scheduling friction. But removing that friction removes something valuable: control over your priorities and time....
The AI Code Review Bottleneck: When Speed Creates Gridlock
AI coding assistants generate code faster than ever, but PR review has become the new bottleneck. Teams deliver slower despite individual developers moving faster....
The Coming Collapse of AI Coding Assistants
AI coding assistants promised 55% productivity gains but METR found developers are 19% slower....
Agentic AI's 40% Failure Rate: The Correction Nobody Wants
Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027....
AI Coding Tools Have No Institutional Memory
AI coding assistants are stateless. They don't remember your architectural decisions, past bugs, or team conventions....
Agentic AI Is Just Automation With Better Marketing
Strip away the marketing and 'agentic AI' is workflow automation with LLM steps. Useful, but not the revolution the vendors are selling....
The Speech-to-Speech Revolution: When 300ms Changes Everything
Speech-to-speech AI has crossed the 300ms latency threshold where interactions feel like genuine conversation....
What AI Agents Cannot Do (And Will Not, Anytime Soon)
AI agents have hard limits. They will not replace judgment, empathy, expertise, accountability, or physical labor. Five things knowledge workers still own....
The Hidden Cost of AI Calendar Assistants
AI calendar assistants claim massive time savings, but rigorous research reveals a productivity paradox: tools that make you feel faster actually make you....
Why AI Agents Can't Remember (And What's Changing)
Current AI agents don't learn - they retrieve. New research on reinforcement learning for memory could change that....
AI Art Is Actually Good for Artists
The panic over AI image generation misses how it's actually helping working artists be more productive and creative....
Web Spy: The Personal Web Crawler I Never Released
I built Web Spy - a desktop app that crawled and cached websites for offline reading. This was before HTTrack, before Pocket, before Instapaper. Never shipped it....